All of us make six, four gentlemen and two ladies.

Mrs.Phillips, Mrs.Drake, Captain Chamberlain, Mr.Bancroft, Mr.Lancaster, and myself.
Our amusements are eating and drinking, sleeping and backgammon.
Seasickness we have thrown overboard, and, all things considered, we try to enjoy ourselves and sometimes succeed.
* * * * * "_Thursday, 31st August._ Wind as directly ahead as it can blow; squally all night and tremendous sea.

What a contrast does this voyage make with my first.

This day makes the tenth day out and we have advanced towards home about three hundred miles.

In my last voyage, on the tenth day, we had accomplished one half our voyage, sixteen hundred miles.
"_Friday, 1st September._ Dreadful weather; wind still ahead; foggy, rainy, and heavy swell; patience almost exhausted, but the will of Heaven be done.